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Urbanism&Design: Balancing Rural Land Use, Urbanizing Montgomery County, Calming Parking Wars, Roman Concrete Recipe

June 10, 2013
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  URBANISM & DESIGN Rural Land Use Requires Balance  Lexington Herald Leader   A city task force created 15 months ago to consider zoning-law changes to allow more recreation and tourism opportunities in rural Fayette County recently made its report to the Urban County Council.
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Environment & Ecology: Preparing For Climate Change, Energy Use Sustainability, Urban Heat Island & Bugs, Oahu's Green Buffers

March 29, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY 82% of Americans Want US to Prepare for Climate Change  USA Today   Should the United States prepare for climate change? And who should pay? A Stanford University survey released Thursday finds that 82% of Americans want the nation to prepare
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Environment & Ecology: Hilton Cogeneration System, Landscape & Architecture, Shaping Nature, Parking & Earthquakes In SF, America's Polluted Rivers, Sustainability & Resilience Scales

March 28, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Hilton New York's Cogeneration System  Travel Daily News   Anaergia Inc. announced that the 1,750kW cogeneration plant for the 1,981-room Hilton New York in midtown Manhattan is now online.
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Transport: Improving Tampa Transit, SF Transit-First Policy, Netherlands Park N Ride Lessons, Safe Feeling Bike Lanes, Small City HSR Benefit

March 21, 2013
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TRANSPORT Commissioners Discuss How to Improve Tampa Transit  Tampa Bay Times   Hillsborough commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to begin discussions with the county's three mayors and other government leaders about future transportation needs.
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Urban Issues: Big Ideas For Columbus, Best Comeback Small Towns, Municipal Utilities & Disaster, Seating On The Subway

March 18, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Brainstorming Big Ideas for Columbus' Future  Columbus Dispatch   Almost every day, Mayor Michael B. Coleman walks by LeVeque Tower. He looks to the top of the 555-foot-tall skyscraper, his mind wanders and he imagines.   Read On   America's Best Comeback Small Towns  CNN   Everyone loves a good get-back-up, Rocky-style story. But inspirational tales don't always have to star a guy in shiny shorts - or a big city like Philadelphia.
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Blogosphere: Portland Bike Oriented Development, End Of Fed Highway Support, Accessing Academic Journals, Harvesting Rainwater, Building Better Civic Tech

March 12, 2013
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Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. TRANSPORT Blogosphere: Portland Retailers Swoop In on Bikeways Green Lane Project
Urban commercial real estate has always been a rough-and-tumble scrum, and now Amazon.com has torn up the playbook. Across the country, many brick-and-mortar retailers are in big trouble...

Read On Blogosphere: Why Was State Street Ped Mall a Failure Chicago Streetsblog
When I was a bicycle messenger in the early nineties, the State…
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Blogosphere: Bikes & Business, Urban Mobility Report Critique, Long Distance Commutes, Dirty Urbanization Truth, Boston Giant Farm

March 8, 2013
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Austin, Bay Area, bicycles, Boston, California, Demographics, Development & Redevelopment, Economic Development And TOD, Employment & Transit, Health & Environment, Highways & Automobiles, Italy, Lancaster, Livability In Smaller Cities, Massachusetts, Milan, Pennsylvania, Performance, Philadelphia, Ridership, Rural, San Antonio, Texas, TOD, tracks, tracks opinion, Transit, Transit Design, Transit Funding, Travel Behavior, urban, Urban Form, Zoning & Coding
Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. TRANSPORT Blogosphere: Biz Impact of Bikes Dominates Meeting Streetsblog
'Bikes mean business' is the official theme of this year's National Bike Summit; but that idea hardly needs any help in being put front and center...

Read On Blogosphere: New Volvo Tech Keeps Cyclists Safe Grist
Those outside-the-car airbags are pretty sweet, but what if we could make cars automatically stop before they, you know, hit people?..

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Blogosphere: Reforming CEQA, Falling Private Car Use, Protected Bike Lanes, Water & Cities, Healthy Community Designs, Zoning As Hero & Villain

February 11, 2013
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Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. TRANSPORT Blogosphere: 66% Of Fillup Goes to Oil Company Coffers Wired Autopia
That new car you just bought? You'll spend almost as much - if not more - filling it up as you paid at the dealer. And the majority of it will go directly into oil company's pockets...

Read On Blogosphere: What Would Ideal CEQA Reform Look Like CAHSR Blog
There's been a lot of discussion in recent weeks about various proposals to reform the California Environmental Quality Act. But the most interesting…
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Blogosphere: Congestion Pricing Cuts Traffic, BRT & Economic Development, Skyscrapers Over Trains, Repairing Freeway Scars, Hawaii TOD

January 23, 2013
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Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. TRANSPORT Blogosphere: Pricing Cuts Traffic 20% in 2 Weeks  EU Polis Network
The Göteborg congestion charge was launched on 1 January 2013. First reports after week 1 and week 2 of the scheme show that it is working as expected. The congestion charge is part of the West Swedish Agreement that aims to create an attractive, sustainable and growing region...

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Blogosphere: Biking Research From TRB, America Is Walking Disaster, Hopes & Obstacles For DC Streetcars, View For Transit Foes

January 17, 2013
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Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. TRANSPORT Blogosphere:  El Camino Development Could Help/Hurt Peninsula Transportation Blog
Menlo Park's new El Camino Real/Downtown Specific Plan, approved by City Council last summer, envisions greatly enhancing El Camino's role as a place for people in addition to cars...

Read On Blogosphere: Turn Downtown One Ways into Two Ways Stockton City Limits
Driving in downtown…
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